Dental Implants: Have you made the right choice yet?

Comprehensive and Personalized Evaluation, Planning, and Treatment for your Dental Implants using world-class, cutting-edge dental technology, proven in over 40 years of clinical use

With nearly 500 dental implants a year, and a success rate over 95%, our Dental Implants Center is the natural choice for patients around the globe. From Brazil to Japan, Australia to Boston, our patients rave about us on all six continents.

“My teeth are the envy of everybody” - Ben Wegener, Germany

We support multiple dental implant systems – from the Nobel Biocare Implant System to the Zimmer Implant System – and apply a range of advanced techniques like teeth-in-an-hour, keyhole dental implants, bone grafting, etc to ensure that you get the most appropriate dental implant treatment.

Whether you wear flippers or dentures, missing teeth can be more than just an inconvenience. It can get downright embarrassing and that too at the worst possible moment. Dentures that refuse to stay in place, wobbling and clicking noises, can all cause moments of acute personal and social anxiety. Apart from that, you also end up having to miss out on your favorite hard and crunchy foods.

Dental Implants that look and feel just like normal teeth will restore your confidence, allow you to speak, laugh, and chew without restraint. No longer do you have to keep yourself in check for fear of dislodgement, damage, or public embarrassment. Made of surgical grade, bio-compatible titanium, your dental implant is designed to give you a lifetime of satisfaction.

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Dental Implant Systems

When you come to Rajan Dental, you get a comprehensive, professional, personalized, and objective evaluation of your dental implant needs. Using sophisticated scanning equipment and implant planning software, we determine the most viable options for your treatment. Our dental surgeons will then explain these choices to you in clear, simple, non-medical terms. They will also explain any medical risks based on your medical history and oral habits. We recommend two major implant systems:

• The Nobel Biocare Implant System: Often referred to as the Rollys-Royce of dental implant systems, getting a Nobel Biocare Dental Implant is an assurance of quality and reliability. It has a documented track-record of well over 95% success rates in more than 40 years of clinical use.
• The Zimmer Implant System: This is another dependable and robust dental implant system though its clinical use extends over 15 years only. If you are on a budget the Zimmer Implant System maybe more suited to your pocket.

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Advanced Dental Implant Procedures

For both implant systems, we use advanced procedures if appropriate and medically advisable. Depending on your oral health, you may be a viable candidate for:

• Teeth-in-an-hour: In this procedure, it takes just one hour to fit the dental implant and artificial teeth. Usually this is an outpatient procedure and you can get back to normal life with minimum disruption to your regular schedule.
  
• Keyhole Dental Implants: Increasingly, we favor the keyhole dental implant technique as it is less traumatic and aids faster healing. In traditional implants, an incision in the gums is required to place the implant. In the keyhole surgery, we determine the precise and safest placement of the dental implant in a computer simulation using a 3-D image of your jaw structure. The final simulation goes to a laboratory in Sweden for fabrication of the surgical guide (Nobel-guide) which reaches us within six working days. The surgical guide (stent) is fabricated to the precise dimensions of your gum and teeth contours and we are able to place the implant with minimum intrusion and maximum accuracy. Rajan Dental pioneered this procedure in India having done the first successful keyhole dental implant on April 8, 2006 right after its USA launch in 2005.

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Bone Graft for Dental Implants

If you do not have sufficient bone mass in your jaws, we may need to graft a bone into the jaw before we can start the actual implant. This could involve a further waiting period of six months. However, with the tremendous advances in dental implant technology we can now offer you the option of a graftless dental implant.

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Graftless Dental Implants

The Branemark Zygoma Dental Implant System

This revolutionary dental implant system eliminates the need for bone grafting altogether. Traditionally, if you did not have sufficient bone mass in your jaws, the only option was dental surgery for a bone graft. This would then create sufficient foundation for the dental implant. The Branemark Zygoma System is a graftless dental implant system where the implant is directly embedded in your cheekbones (medically referred to as Zygoma). This approach is on par with other advanced techniques like teeth-in-an-hour or keyhole placement. Your total treatment time could be as low as a week or two and likewise your healing would be much faster. Rajan Dental are among the pioneers in adopting the Branemark Zygoma Implant system and among the top 5 practitioners in India

Cost of Dental Implants

There is no easy way to calculate how much your dental implant will cost without a complete physical examination. Many factors go into determining the total cost of the implant procedure and the cost of the implant is itself only one of the cost components. At the minimum, you should expect an outlay of about Rs. 50,000** for a single implant. (about US $ 1000 – click here for current rates and to see the approximate price in your own currency). Costs may not necessarily double if you need more than one implant. The best way to find out would be request an appointment or if that is not possible submit your details and get a quote* via email.

General Information on Dental Implants

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** Costs as of Q4, 2008. Prices may vary with changes in international exchange rates.